Folding chair

Folding chairs or folding chairs are folding chairs. These chairs are popular since ancient times because they can be easily transported. Be it in the war camp, traveling, walks or even in artistic and scientific works outdoors. Therefore, the folding chair was also called field chair.

History

Folding chairs were used in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Thus, the curule chair of Roman magistrates was also a folding chair as the seat of the emperor. The frame was usually made of wood, rare metal. The wood was decorated with artful carvings, with animal heads and animal feet, gilded and inlaid with ivory. The seat was either stuff, leather and the like, or slats, which also lay down together when folding the chair.

From Northern Europe the remains of at least 18 Falthockern from the Nordic Bronze Age are known from archaeological excavations, including the folding stool of Guldhøj (Denmark ), whose wood is completely preserved, or folding stool of Daensen whose characteristic metal fittings are obtained.

Specific dissemination found the folding chair in the middle ages. Here he was appreciated as a liturgical piece of furniture. The Faldistorium or Faldistolium was the folding chair of the bishops (as far as them not the use of the throne of state ), the prelates and abbots all Pontifikalhandlungen. Since the 15th and 16th century the folding chair has then most sites and backrest.

Today, folding chairs are used where it comes to easy portability and space saving storage. In the interior of the flexible seating of function rooms, outdoor as garden and camping chair ( for example Sweden chair) and often in beer gardens. Even the " classic director's chair " is a folding chair. Depending on the requirement are various materials used: wood, metals, plastics, textiles.

Function

Medieval folding chairs were folded in the manner of an X on the side armrests. Modern folding chairs are folded generally the seat.

Gallery

Japanese folding stool

Folding chair made ​​of wood

Folding Chair

Camping - Folding Chair

Demarcation

The folding chair is different from the folding seat by the fixed attachment of the folding seat to a wall or a floor. The folding chair is freestanding and can be moved individually without solution of glands.